Darling of American right finds new adversary as award-winning director puts finishing touches to Sarah Palin – You Betcha!
She is the self-styled hockey mom and "mama grizzly" who once said she was prepared to rise up up on her hind legs to protect her cubs.
But darling of the American right Sarah Palin has found a new adversary – award-winning British director Nick Broomfield, who claims to have uncovered dark suspicions and feuding within her coterie and likens her Alaskan home of Wasilla to David Lynch's dystopian fictional mountain town Twin Peaks.
The documentary maker, who has previously tackled Kurt Cobain, Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur, and Heidi Fleiss, is currently putting the finishing touches to his film Sarah Palin – You Betcha!.
But he is understood to have found what he calls his quest to find the "real" Sarah Palin something of an ordeal.
During filming for the project, which...
She is the self-styled hockey mom and "mama grizzly" who once said she was prepared to rise up up on her hind legs to protect her cubs.
But darling of the American right Sarah Palin has found a new adversary – award-winning British director Nick Broomfield, who claims to have uncovered dark suspicions and feuding within her coterie and likens her Alaskan home of Wasilla to David Lynch's dystopian fictional mountain town Twin Peaks.
The documentary maker, who has previously tackled Kurt Cobain, Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur, and Heidi Fleiss, is currently putting the finishing touches to his film Sarah Palin – You Betcha!.
But he is understood to have found what he calls his quest to find the "real" Sarah Palin something of an ordeal.
During filming for the project, which...
- 8/5/2011
- by Ben Dowell
- The Guardian - Film News
'Critical' film to compete with authorised Palin documentary
He's tackled Kurt Cobain, Biggie Smalls, Tupac Shakur and Heidi Fleiss. Now British documentary-maker Nick Broomfield has turned his attention to Sarah Palin, darling of the American right and potential candidate for a Us presidential run next year.
Broomfield's as-yet-untitled film reportedly offers a critical examination of the former Us Republican vice presidential candidate via interviews with her parents, friends and ex-colleagues from his subject's time as governor of Alaska. It is due to be screened in Los Angeles next week for potential buyers, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
A trailer for the film features interviews with former Alaska legislative director John Bitney and former state senate president Lyda Green, both of whom describe an "unengaged" Palin who made of a habit of texting on her mobile during important meetings and legislative sessions.
"I never felt that Sarah was ever connected to...
He's tackled Kurt Cobain, Biggie Smalls, Tupac Shakur and Heidi Fleiss. Now British documentary-maker Nick Broomfield has turned his attention to Sarah Palin, darling of the American right and potential candidate for a Us presidential run next year.
Broomfield's as-yet-untitled film reportedly offers a critical examination of the former Us Republican vice presidential candidate via interviews with her parents, friends and ex-colleagues from his subject's time as governor of Alaska. It is due to be screened in Los Angeles next week for potential buyers, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
A trailer for the film features interviews with former Alaska legislative director John Bitney and former state senate president Lyda Green, both of whom describe an "unengaged" Palin who made of a habit of texting on her mobile during important meetings and legislative sessions.
"I never felt that Sarah was ever connected to...
- 6/29/2011
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
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